[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > optparse seems to be escaping control characters that I pass as > arguments on the command line. Is this a bug? Am I missing > something? Can this be prevented, or worked around?
It has nothing to do with optparse, it's how Python prints strings: $ python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv' '\t' ['-c', '\\t'] Note that you're not really passing a control character to Python, you're passing a two-character string consisting of \ and t. When representing the string inside a data structure, Python escapes the \ to avoid confusion with a real control character such as \t. If you try printing the string itself, you'll see that everything is correct: $ python -c 'import sys; print sys.argv[1]' '\t' \t -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
